Stunning Depictions of Ancient Comets That Scared The Hell Out of Humans

There are a lot of pics and paintings of the comets. You really must see the pics for full effect. These are wood carvings and paintings of the actual events.

"In 1007 A.D., a wondrous comet appeared. It gave off fire and flames in every direction," in The Book of Miracles (Augsburger Wunderzeichenbuch), printed in the 16th century.

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Image: Day+FaberA scene from the Bayeux Tapestry show men staring at Halley’s Comet (c1066), and is the first known picture of the comet.

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Image: Myrabella/Wikimedia Commons"In 1300 A.D., a terrible comet appeared in the sky... and in this year, on St Andrew’s Day, an earthquake shook the ground so that many buildings collapsed." - The Book of Miracles

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Image: Day+Faber"In 1401 A.D., a big comet with a tail... appeared in the sky in Germany. That was followed by a great, terrible plague in Swabia." - The Book of Miracles

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Image: Day+FaberThe comet of 1456 as it was seen in Germany, from The Book of Miracles.

The Ensisheim Meteorite, a stony meteorite that fell on November 7, 1492, in a wheat field outside of Ensisheim, Austria (now France). Woodcut in Ship of Fools (Daß Narrenschyff ad Narragoniam) by Sebastian Brant, 1494 Switzerland.

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Image: ADS/HarvardMelencolia I: In Albrecht Dürer's well known engraving a comet or meteor can be seen shooting across the sky, 1514.

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Image: BIBLIOTECA DIGITAL HISPÁNICA1527: The comet's "head like a bent arm, as if it had a sword in its hand and wanted to strike. And at the point of the sword there were three big stars and from the stars sprang a cloud-coloured stream, which was longer than the comet’s tail." - The Book of Miracles

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Image: Day+Faber1531: The comet’s tail was "longer than a rice skewer, one and a half feet wide." - The Book of Miracles

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Image: Day+FaberView of a celestial phenomenon that appeared in Salon in Provence, c1547.

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Image: GallicaA sword as if about to strike, 1560.

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Image: Wellcome Library, LondonThe comet of 1577.

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